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The Tinsley Towers Trust
was formed this year in another attempt to save
Sheffield’s landmark Cooling Towers from demolition,
to preserve them as part of our cultural and industrial
heritage, to develop their potential in culture,
education and tourism and to create jobs in the
area.
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Unfortunately, E.ON continues
to reject concepts that include the Towers despite
all efforts made by the campaign. While the company
argues that the structures are unsafe, that the
public want them down and that a biomass plant would
be built in their place, nothing of it has been
proven true.
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E.ON admits that the layout
of their proposed plant does not conflict with the
location of the Towers, but states: "before
the E.ON site can be developed the cooling towers
need to be demolished. This will leave a clean and
level site capable of development for a wide range
of uses." (ref/p3-1)
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The Tinsley Towers are three
times stronger than those built to current standards.
They stand 17 metres away from the M1 viaduct that
serves 100,000 vehicles a day. Maintenance work
of the viaduct took three years and has cost us
£82 million. So
why risk a demolition for no good reason?
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